Astropulse v6 has been released for linux and windows.

We've released the Astropulse version 6 application to the SETI@home project. The only real difference is a couple of minus signs in the code that were added to match changes to the way the data recorder works.

It'll take a while for the credit granted by this application to settle out to a reasonably constant value. If you run optimized applications, I'd suggest you wait a couple of weeks before starting to do Astropulse v6 work just to avoid the possibility that you will be granted an extremely low credit for your work.
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Thanks for the "Heads-up" Eric.
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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott

Questions and problems to Updating for upcoming apps..... in the Number Crunching forum, please.

Is Astropulse V6 going to ever be released for OSX? Or is that just another unsupported feature of SETI BOINC on OSX? I am considering stopping donations to SETI until my chosen platform is completely supported!!!
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It'll take a while for the credit granted by this application to settle out to a reasonably constant value. ...

Preaching to the choir on that one. The FLOP counting credit system was far more stable than the current one.
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We've released the Astropulse version 6 application to the SETI@home project. The only real difference is a couple of minus signs in the code that were added to match changes to the way the data recorder works.

It'll take a while for the credit granted by this application to settle out to a reasonably constant value. If you run optimized applications, I'd suggest you wait a couple of weeks before starting to do Astropulse v6 work just to avoid the possibility that you will be granted an extremely low credit for your work.

We plan that eventually it will support CUDA and OpenCL. Unfortunately Astropulse has lots of twisty turny passages, so I don't expect the speedup will be that huge. It'll probably spend a lot of time using CPU to avoid bogging the GPU down with unproductive stuff.

I'll try to get some Mac builds working next week. It probably won't support graphics when first released, but it will be better than nothing.


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"twisty turny passages" huh? Is that technical phrasing? ;)

"grad student code" seemed too mean. ;)
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"grad student code" seemed too mean. ;)

We plan that eventually it will support CUDA and OpenCL. Unfortunately Astropulse has lots of twisty turny passages, so I don't expect the speedup will be that huge. It'll probably spend a lot of time using CPU to avoid bogging the GPU down with unproductive stuff.

I'll try to get some Mac builds working next week. It probably won't support graphics when first released, but it will be better than nothing.

Yeah, that's always been the problem with Astropulse, since it can take days for a result to be computed, and a computer might not start computing it for a week or more sometimes you'll wait weeks for credit. But in your "Recent Average Credit" it should even out eventually.
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Just got 832.47 credits for an astropulse unit which took 1350353.04 s on my Solaris 11 Virtual Machine. The BOINC client and the app are by Dotsch. My CPU is an Opteron 1210 at 1.8 GHz running SuSE Linux 11.1 32-bit. But the Solaris 11 guest OS is a 64-bit.
Tullio

I've been getting 1-2 Astropulse projects per week for quite a few months. Nothing out of the ordinary about them. Suddenly a couple of days ago I got 2 HUGE astropulse projects that were easily 3-4 times the size of any of the previous ones & one was labled "High Priority". What made it high priority?

Carol